Blake's Margins

The late Hazard Adams was professor emeritus at the University of Washington’s department of comparative literature. He was known internationally as a scholar of William Blake, W.B. Yeats, Joyce Cary, and the history of criticism. He lived in Shelton, Washington.

“with the increasing appreciation of the nature of marginalia as a genre, Hazard Adams’s study of Blake’s is a timely one. Adams has the fine talents of discussing difficult passages lucidly without simplifying their meanings... all readers...will come away from it with a richer understanding of his thought”—Nbol.com; “an important and interesting work...this is the first critical work to consider William Blake’s annotations in their entirety”—Oxford Journal.

• Table of ContentsPreface      Introduction      1. Annotations to Johann Caspar Lavater’s Aphorisms on Man      2. Annotations to Emanuel Swedenborg’s Heaven and Hell, Divine Love and Divine Wisdom, and Divine Providence      3. Annotations to Bishop Richard Watson’s An Apology for the Bible      4. Annotations to Sir Francis Bacon’s Essays Moral, Economical, and Political      5. Annotations to Henry Boyd’s A Translation of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri      6. Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses on Art      7. Annotations to J. C. Spurzheim’s Observations on the Deranged Manifestations of the Mind, or Insanity      8. Annotations to Bishop George Berkeley’s Siris      9. Annotations to William Wordsworth’s Poems and Preface to The Excursion      10. Annotations to Robert John Thornton’s The Lord’s Prayer, Newly Translated      11. Addendum      12. A Note on Blake’s Reading      Index